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Programmes and Projects we have in Kenya

Moving Mountains run a variety of development projects in Kenya supporting educational, social welfare and health needs. Each project offers genuine benefits for the local communities.

Life Skills Programme

Moving Mountains Kenya deliver essential life skills to vulnerable children through a variety of activities, camps, classes, sports and adventures.

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Community Health

Our community health programme reaches the vulnerable students who frequently miss school simply because they lack basic personal care items, at Moving Mountains we believe that every young person deserves the right to learn with dignity, health, and confidence.

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Feeding and Nutrition Programme

Our Feeding and Nutrition Programme serves as a vital foundation for education, health, and child protection in Embu.

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Gatuanyaga Primary - original classrooms

Gatuanyaga Primary School

To mark 20 years of working together, Moving Mountains Trust and Granaghan Outreach started developing Gatuanyaga Primary on the western side of Mount Kenya in March 2026.

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Kimbo Primary School

In 2024 Moving Mountains teamed up with long term supporters, Granaghan Outreach, to start working at Kimbo Junior and Primary School, an underdeveloped school in the Riuru sub-county of Central Kenya.

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Naro Moru Township Primary School

In 2024 Moving Mountains started working at Naro Moru Township Junior and Primary School, an overpopulated school on the western side of Mount Kenya that faces very high student enrollment every year.

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Embu Rescue Centre

The Embu Rescue Centre provides a safe place in Embu where between 70 and 120 children can get a daily lunch and breakfast and receive help from caring adult staff and volunteers. The feeding programme is part of a wider holistic 'umbrella' of support that we provide for children in the town.

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Black Cats Football Academy

The Black Cats Football Academy supports some of the most marginalised and vulnerable young people in Kenya; street children, orphans, internally displaced people, and young people from urban slum communities and low-income rural communities.

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Embu School for Special Needs

Before Moving Mountains Trust became involved with this school in the Embu district of Eastern Kenya in 2007, pupils were taught in dark classrooms with potholes in the floors, and they had few resources.

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Gatwe Primary School

Gatwe Primary School is a rural village school in Embu County on the southern slopes of Mount Kenya, currently serving around 300 students.

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Sisi Kwa Sisi ‘Africamp’

Help us run one of our famous Sisi Kwa Sisi (one to one) summer camps for Kenyan children who are beneficiaries of the charity.

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Educational Support Program

Support the education of a child in need by making a donation to Moving Mountains Kenya's educational programs today.

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Solio Village Community

One of our most exciting development projects is in Solio, a region in central Kenya which since 2008 has been home to around 20,000 internally displaced people.

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Barkatado Primary School

Barkatado Primary School is located on top of a small hill about 5km south-east of Ulamba Children's Home in Siaya, Western Kenya.

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Malunga Primary School

Malunga Primary School is situated in rural Western Kenya around 3km north-east of the small town of Ngia in Siaya Province.

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Wagwer Primary School

Wagwer Primary School is in Western Kenya and is one of the oldest schools in the District, but had been in steady neglect from when it was first built in the 1950s

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Kayieye Primary School

Kayieye Primary School is located in the Siaya District of Western Kenya close to our Moving Mountains Ulamba Children's Home.

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Wagai Primary School

Wagai Primary School in the Nyanza province of Western Kenya provides education for 450 students in the local area.

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Construction Work Team

Under the guidance of Francis Kioni, Moving Mountains Kenya's Project Manager, the initial aim was to train the beneficiaries in a broad range of vocational skills which would enable the charity to employ them to work on all of our construction projects across Kenya and Tanzania.

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Dophil Clinic & Maternity Home

Moving Mountains supports Dophil Clinic in the rural and impoverished district of Siaya in Western Kenya.

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Kumuok Primary School

Kumuok Primary School in Western Kenya is one of the several local communities across the district that we are working with to pursue a long-term programme to improve education standards.

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Mama Fatuma Goodwill Childrens’ Home

In the heart of Eastleigh slum in Nairobi East, Mama Fatuma Children’s Home helps to care for Nairobi’s large and growing population of orphans and vulnerable children who are forced to fend for themselves on the streets.

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Barakawandu Primary School

One of our most recent partnerships in Western Kenya is with Barakawandu Primary School. Together we are working to pursue a programme of educational development.

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Wagwer Secondary School

Moving Mountains has been working in partnership with Wagwer Secondary school in Western Kenya since 2002.

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Ushirika Clinic, Kibera, Nairobi

Ushirika clinic is a community-owned medical facility based in the heart of Kibera. In an area of about 4 square kilometres there are approximately a quarter of a million people living together in this informal settlement.

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Urban Primary School

Urban Primary School is located in the busy market town of Embu, just south of Mt Kenya. Urban Primary provides education for hundreds of children from urban slum communities in Embu.

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Nyasidhi Primary School

Before the Moving Mountains Trust involvement, Nyasidhi Primary School was at the bottom of the regional academic performance tables.

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Chris Morrone Kiamathaga Secondary School

Since 2008 Moving Mountains has been supporting Tigithi Primary School, a rural school near to Mt Kenya which serves the local community and boasts spectacular views of the mountain.

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Ulamba Childrens’ Home

Ulamba Children's Home near the town of Siaya in Nyanza District currently houses 23 boys and girls, all of whom are wards of the court as either orphans, runaways or children who have been put into care.

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Tigithi Primary School

Tigithi Primary School is situated in a small market town in central Kenya. It currently educates 240 children from the area and since we have started working with the school in 2008, attendance and grades have greatly improved.

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Embu County Primary School

In 2004 when Moving Mountains first agreed to support Embu Country Primary it was a very run down school in the heart of a busy market town.

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Kenya Medical Camp

This 19 day free medical camp in Kenya is for the communities of either the Nyanza Province in Western Kenya.

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Kenya School Adventure

This adventure for schools has been running since 1996 and has successfully delivered a positive and influential experience to thousands of young people, both in the UK and in East Africa.

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Medical Elective Kenya

Since 2003 we have been organising medical elective placements through Adventure Alternative for students.

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Mount Kenya Charity Climb

Our Mount Kenya charity climb for Moving Mountains will take you on a journey through central Kenya to experience some of the wildlife and culture that Kenya is famous for.

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